Koto Babagalleh,

You book is timely and your contribution to the production of knowledge is
extraordinary. You stand out as one of the very few who have taken the bull
by the horns to put into record one of the most brutal regimes of our times.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his book  The First Circle wrote :

'No regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.'

You are a great writer and an accomplished Gambian writer, master of satire
and skillful in language. I have read most of your satirical publications in
The Gambia but then as it was a new style of writing and a new experience
for most, hardly could people understand the great messages you constantly
portrayed.

The fact that you have published books on current issues of concern in the
recent history of The Gambia, you have provided the most dangerous weapon
against this regime. Was Hitler not a hater of books? Had he not declared
that all great books be burn in public? But then, in 1942, Franklin D.
Roosevelt said:

'We all know that books burn - yet we have the greater knowledge that books
cannot be killed by fire.  People die, but books never die.  No man and no
force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons.'

Your books will not only be powerful weapons for Gambians both today and in
the future, it will serve as a useful reminder to future governments that
Gambians are not dumb as their dictators take them to be and they will fight
back. The time will come when each will account for one's deeds.

George Bernard Shaw écrit que:

A la nomination d'une petite minorité corrompue, la démocratie substitue
l'élection par une masse incompétente.

Merci beaucoup!!!

Your Sister,
Minyang Maa.

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